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America's Mayor Live (837): President Trump Warns Venezuela to Cooperate or Face New U.S. Action

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	Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani.
	This is America's Mayor Live, live from Palm Beach.
	Although it does appear as if we're live from Caracas, which whatever they're telling you is now a very happy city, but tempered somewhat by the fact that the person in charge is a communist and a murderer and a criminal and someone who we made a deal with.
	And I'm not, I mean, there are two sides to whether you should have made the deal, and there are two legitimate sides to it.
	And I'm not necessarily right now attempting to criticize it.
	I'm just being real.
	But the hope is that we are completely in control of this criminal and will use her for a sensible transition, which requires a very, very delicate judgment about who you keep on, who you get rid of.
	A judgment that we made brilliantly after the Second World War, better than any nation ever did, conducted the best nation building since Julius Caesar, who, of course, was a lot more brutal than the way he did it.
	There's no doubt in the world that if they had a title of who has been the greatest nation builder person ever, it would be Douglas MacArthur in Japan.
	And all we have to do when we do it, take a trip to Japan and go pick a person on the street, because the Japanese still learn history.
	In America, if you ask who Douglas MacArthur is, people in New York would say MacArthur Airport, but have no idea who was named after.
	Well, the transition is now taking place.
	Celia Delcey is the illegitimate president of Venezuela, recognized by the United States.
	She's illegitimate because she was never elected.
	The election was a so Maduro gets elected with her, but the uniform decision is, when I say uniform, I mean United Nations, not even the U.S., is that she didn't win and that he didn't win.
	So if he didn't win, she didn't win.
	Now he's out and she's in as by virtue of being the interim vice president.
	So in a way, she's a caretaker for the American occupation, which is a very light occupation.
	It's an occupation from the telephone.
	I don't think we have troops in Venezuela.
	I don't think so.
	If we do, they're just, you know, in order to facilitate removal of things.
	We still have a massive fleet right outside of Caracas.
	And I think the ability to overwhelm them as faster, faster than we did before.
	And we are definitely bossing her around.
	I mean, she started off when she first took over criticizing the effort and asking that Maduro be put back.
	The next morning, she had a conversation with Secretary of State Rubio, and now she's doing anything America wants.
	Smart woman, but very, very crooked woman.
	And the sooner she's gone, the better for the future of Venezuela.
	So why is it a closed question?
	And yesterday, you'll see, and almost immediately I tweeted out that I thought it was a mistake and that we should just get rid of her.
	I still think that's true.
	Personally, I think the better way to do this was take a little more time and clean out the scum at the top.
	Cut the head off.
	We don't have to cut the shoulders off.
	Just cut the head off.
	Maybe you have to cut the shoulders off, but it might work if you just cut the head off.
	The head means her, the top ministers of government, and the top implementers.
	I'm going to say, without having studied Venezuela, I could probably tell you in Iran what the number is, but in 100 people pick somebody that has a reputation of having been anti-Maduro inside.
	Well, we know who they are.
	How the hell do you think we pull this off?
	Don't be naive.
	A smooth mission like this doesn't happen without an awful lot of inside knowledge.
	A lot of people turned on this guy.
	Well, she did.
	I mean, she ratted him out.
	That's why she is where she is.
	She has been working with us for quite some time.
	So, but I think you could make the decision that you want the railroads to run, you want the airports to run, you want the country to run, you don't want it to fall apart like Iraq.
	You want to kind of do a MacArthur transition or like the one we did in Italy or like the one we did in our part of Germany.
	Although there we did cut the head off, we got rid of the top Nazi people.
	Now, we know we didn't get rid of all of them, and we know a lot of them escaped, but we got rid of the top most obvious Nazi people.
	It wasn't just Hitler, it was the whole group.
	And Italy, the same thing, a whole group around Mussolini.
	We kept a lot of people who worked for them.
	It was a delicate balance, and that's necessary here.
	So, the delicate balance we thought would work, having worked with her in the double cross of Maduro, was that she would do our bidding.
	And let's see, let's see.
	She started off bad, she straightened out, and we'll keep, I assume, we keep a daily momentary watch on it.
	The most important thing is that we guide Venezuela to what I know, and you know, you know, whether you know it or you don't, but you know it as an American.
	These are sophisticated 21st-century people here.
	This is not a Neanderthal outclay enclave.
	At least we want freedom.
	These are Christians, these are mostly Catholics.
	It's inherent in it's their God-given right, and they know it.
	So, that's where we got to go.
	We got to go in that direction.
	And I believe we are.
	And whether I agree or I don't with individual decisions, I am praying for the success of this effort.
	I hope when I criticize, it's either helpful or I'm wrong.
	I'm not a Democrat and an anti-American.
	Now, I have before this show, I put out a little thing.
	I did two things just to see what was going on because I had a suspicion.
	I hit Grok for the top five stories.
	And they came up with Maduro Pleads Not Guilty, Coalition of the Willing Summit on Ukraine, NATO tensions, Global News Bulletin.
	Europe and international are emphasizing fraud geopolitical shift.
	Global markets are reacting differently with regard to the economic risk.
	And Russia-Ukraine war continues with missile strikes.
	So that was their five top stories from Grok, which if you use that AI thing.
	And the fifth one, I think I just said, was a Russia-Ukraine war continues with a strike.
	Sounds pretty reasonable, right?
	Right.
	Now, let's go to ChatGPTGQY, whatever the hell it is.
	What is it, Ted?
	Let's get it right here.
	Chat GPT.
	Who owns that?
	I believe.
	Chat GPT.
	It's its own company.
	What?
	Sam Altman.
	Sam Altman?
	I believe.
	He's not a lefty, is he?
	Open AI.
	Is he a lefty?
	Yes.
	But he's kind of come over a little bit.
	Well, here, top story.
	Elon used to be a part of it, but left.
	Okay, top story.
	Sixth anniversary of the January 6th Capitol attack, Democrats held events and reflections at the Capitol.
	The events and reflections they should have held is to apologize for having surreptitiously carried it out using Antifa.
	Because I specifically know and have known from the night that it happened that 257 Antifa people were in there orchestrating it.
	And maybe I'm the one person, along with the people who got that information from you that knew it the first.
	And this is just another Russian collusion Democrat story that they have persuaded the vast majority of people to believe in order to destroy Donald Trump.
	But the number one story in the whole world was what's going on with Venezuela?
	What's going on with Ukraine?
	What's going on in Israel?
	What's going on in America is a bunch of Democrats getting together to try and reinforce a fraud that they attempted to pull off on the American people, which cost the life of Ashley Babbitt.
	Maybe the demonstration should be who killed Ashley Babbitt?
	Right.
	Because, you know, in New York, we never close a murder until it's solved because we value human life greatly.
	But Democrats don't value human life.
	And maybe they wouldn't agree to killing six, seven, eight, and nine-month-old babies in the womb if they did.
	The second and third story also were about the second and third story.
	Well, we'll wait.
	We'll take a quick break.
	I don't think it could be, but I have to get it.
	Where is it?
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	Deep green, very good quality.
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	We deal with small farmers because they like to know who we're dealing with.
	They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
	You should know all Arabica beans.
	No Robusto.
	All Arabica.
	They're going to go into the roaster, and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
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	We deal with small farmers, but they'd like to know who we're dealing with.
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	Welcome back to America's Mayor Live.
	Well, completing the thought on these AI devices, and I am probably like most of you, mixed on AI.
	There's no, not just mixed, I mean, clearly of two minds.
	Yes, it's very, very valuable, and it can be terrific.
	Two, it's very, very, very dangerous.
	In fact, as valuable as it is, that's as dangerous as it is.
	And it is for us to be able to manage it so we get the best out of it and we keep away the danger, as it is with all things.
	Think about flight, right?
	Flight is extraordinarily dangerous, right?
	Not really.
	I mean, people die a lot more by cars.
	So cars are actually extraordinarily dangerous compared to flights.
	I don't want to contribute to the paranoia about flying because we've got like a 10 times greater chance of dying in a car.
	Like when people get on an airplane and they're worried about dying, you get in the car 10 times more.
	So, yes, cars are very, very dangerous, but cars are very necessary.
	So same thing we have here.
	It's a little more intellectual.
	It's a little more even spiritual in some ways.
	But I'll tell you what has to be avoided.
	What you put in, by and large, is what you're going to get out.
	So when I ask chat GPT what the three big stories are and they're about whether they're what the Democrats are holding a big conference today on their phony January 6 bullshit without at least mentioning the fact that there's a whole other side of the story.
	Number two, they want to put up a memorial to January 6th.
	I'll pull one up too.
	And then they're going to have to have me put up a memorial, which is Nancy Dallessandro and her crooks undermining the integrity of the United States by using her daughter and the Capitol police, the FBI lying for four years about it.
	And then how about naming the 240 or 250 Antifa people that are in there?
	You never bother to do face recognition with any of them.
	And I've got the damn email that says it, but you never bother to even investigate.
	So I want my plaque showing these people who are criminals, starting with Nancy D'Alessandro.
	But that's the number two story.
	Number three story is also about the dispute about whether it should or should not be carried on, this thing.
	Those are the top three stories.
	That's before we get to Maduro.
	That's before we get to Ukraine being bombed.
	That's before we get to the fact that they're having a summit in Europe about Ukraine.
	That's before we get to the fact about what's going on in Venezuela with Celia Del C, who is an acolyte of Maduro and Chavez now running it, but running it and taking our orders.
	Is that a good idea, a bad idea?
	Is it working?
	Now you go over to, now you go over to the one on X, which is called Grok.
	Oh, well, let me finish it out.
	So when they said that to me, I wrote back to them and I said, this is disgraceful.
	This is really just a product of your political bias.
	And they admitted it.
	They said, yeah, well, that's probably right.
	These stories are the more important stories, really.
	So now they go with Maduro pleads guilty, coalition of the willing, global news headline, Europe emphasizing broad geopolitical shifts, the market, how the market's doing, and the Russia-Ukraine war.
	After I scolded them.
	And then I went to Grok, which is their competitor.
	And they have, instead, they are focusing on, as you would imagine, the five top stories, pleading not guilty, Trump and Greenland back at it again.
	European leaders talking about Ukraine.
	As fourth, they have January 6th capital anniversary.
	Democrats are holding events and Republicans have a different view.
	And finally, the CES convention in Las Vegas, which is the largest AI technological convention, this is the 20th year of it.
	And it always comes up with some of the possibilities for the future, some of which work out, some of which don't work out.
	That's a pretty fair thing.
	And it's really important for us to stay on top of this.
	This is what we got to straighten out.
	The reason the country gets bad decisions is the country is brainwashed.
	And there are only a certain number of people that are not just smart enough, but independent enough of will to resist it and want to fight it and go through the trouble of reading and going behind the headlines and having more sources than one, but a lot just fall into it and it's part.
	It's part of the Communist plot and the Islamic uh Muhammad uh inspired uh Islamic plot to take over uh, the world of the infidels.
	So your answer to it is, you got to have, among whatever other sources you have information, some contradictory and and and um, some contradictory and independent ones, which should include us, because we'll give you, we'll give you the truth.
	You don't have to accept it as the truth.
	You can go test us against somebody else, but I can assure you to the extent that we're capable of getting it.
	We'll give it to you and we'll give it to you with the caveats that we're not sure we're not.
	I think you you might have seen, if you've followed us anytime over the last five or six years, that when we get into a controversial story, no matter how political is, we tell you, uh, when we have the facts, we give you the facts.
	When we have the suppositions, we give you the suppositions and we tell you that, and we have facts.
	If they're in dispute, we tell you they're in dispute and we tell you our opinion and you get to weigh that.
	That's why I do this show, that's why I started doing it, because it was needed five or six years ago.
	It's more needed today, and this is another example of it and how we're going to have to learn that, given the fact that we've trained a generation to live off this right.
	How much is three and three six?
	Can you divide uh, three into six?
	Well no, you can just put in on the, on the, on the thing, here you can do it.
	Oh oh yeah, could you do it on paper?
	Um, tell me what time it is?
	I don't know.
	Oh, there it is.
	These are all things that are necessary so that we're independent.
	It doesn't we have to be independent all the time.
	It doesn't mean we can't get things from it uh, from AI, like I did.
	But I have the independent knowledge that I, because I go to so many sources.
	When they give me four things or three things about january, january 6th, and they tell me it's most important for today, because I do the independent research and have all my life, i'm capable of saying, bullshit, that's what and that's what that's actually.
	We are dedicated to that.
	That's what our whole mission is.
	So, having said that and we have already spent a good deal of time on Venezuela I really don't think this is all going to play out and we'll get a real sense of how it's going to go.
	It's going to be hard, it's going to be easy uh, until we get a couple of days or weeks of experience with this new organization.
	Uh, even though there are a group of uh slime, and and and and criminals, they may be controllable slime and criminals and if they are, we can make This transition.
	Most important thing, actually, are they willing to give up power?
	Because critical to this is they're going to step aside.
	We'll have to see.
	But this is a reasonable alternative to having spent the next three or four weeks there, possibly in some kind of warfare, and get rid of their top thousand people.
	Now, I think that I vote for that, but I understand and support doing it the other way and hope it works because it's a lot better if it works that way.
	But then we've got to be willing to come in if it doesn't.
	Again, I think I mentioned earlier, but it's worth mentioning again that as the European leaders meet to talk about what to do about Ukraine, because Russia is again right now, maybe as we speak or a little before and possibly a little later again, they're bombing the heck out of Ukraine, including my favorite city, Kharkiv.
	I mean, if they don't leave Kharkiv alone, I'm going to go volunteer and fight in Kharkiv.
	The people at Kharkiv have been nothing short of heroic.
	And they used to be pro-Russian, they were turned, and now they hate Russia.
	And they're right on the border.
	They're the second most important city and rich city in Russia.
	And they're holding off the Russians again.
	Now, they're not going to take Kharkiv.
	But Putin's angry at Kharkiv because they won't submit to him.
	And this, I think, this probably has me angrier at Khrushchev, yeah.
	At Putin than anything else.
	Whatever his grand objectives are to be Peter the Great or to be Nikita Khrushchev or whatever the heck it is, that he needs more territory for Russia.
	This little phase of what he grabbed is over now.
	There's no reason for these extra deaths.
	There's no reason for it.
	And if it really is to gain negotiating position, then he really is a monster.
	He's a monster.
	Just killing people in streets, babies, children, women.
	He's not hitting military compounds there.
	He's hitting apartment buildings.
	And I don't know why the world doesn't point it out more.
	Gosh, Israel does nothing like that.
	Nothing like that.
	Nothing.
	And a lot of Europe hates Putin, but they still don't point it out.
	Israel has conducted its war with tremendous restraint because if you can't accept anything else, I know why, because they're humane, decent people.
	But if you can't accept anything else, because it's counterproductive for them to kill civilians, and they know it, and they're smart enough to know it.
	And they're smart enough to know that the Palestinians and the Hamas and all of the Jew-hating press exaggerates the number of killings.
	I mean, I don't know how many of those killings are done by Israel and how many are done by Hamas.
	Hamas kills its own people.
	You think they're going to report that?
	Ten kids dead today.
	They may have killed eight.
	And the other two might have been killed because they were put in front of a general.
	That's not happening in Ukraine.
	Ukrainians aren't putting their kids in front of them so that the Russians kill them.
	Russians are killing them because the Russians don't give a damn if they kill kids.
	And I'm sorry, Mr. Russians.
	It's all Putin.
	You're doing it.
	You're doing it.
	Pieces of crap on the front line are doing it.
	You're killing the kids.
	God, you're probably related to them.
	Well, as we said, Maduro pled guilty.
	What does it mean?
	Not guilty.
	What it means is he pled not guilty.
	And the trial and the process has to begin.
	There is an indictment.
	The judge has not yet set down anything like a schedule for, there'll be now, the judge is 92 years old, Judge Ellestein.
	Judge Ellestein is an old-fashioned left of left of left of left and then further left.
	But he is not, but he is not, by today's standards, left.
	I don't know if that would understand that.
	I hope you do.
	He is a, at least my experience with him, and that was both as a lawyer and as a judge, but mostly as a lawyer.
	He's a very, very good, very responsible lawyer who is going to conduct this case in what he believes is a fair and honorable way.
	That might be more pro-defendant normally than I would consider correct, but again, that's a difference of opinion, not principle.
	And I do expect that this will be a fair trial.
	It may anger some people who want to see Maduro convicted because he may give Maduro more of the benefit of the doubt than a lot of people think he should be entitled to, but then you don't know the law.
	My real issue for the judge is his age.
	I don't know at 92 what kind of condition he's in.
	He does seem to want to, he doesn't seem particularly interested in a speedy trial, which I can understand that.
	I mean, it's a complex case.
	And if he were rushing it, a lot of people would feel that he wasn't handling it carefully.
	There's a lot to be considered here, international law, law, even for the vindication of our government.
	I want to see it done right.
	So the fact that he's 92 and they're talking about this taking a couple of years.
	I don't know if this is a, look, I'm 81.
	I'm hardly anybody who wants to say you should take things away from people if they get old.
	I am in, I'm in a condition where if you said you got to preside over a 10-week trial, I could do it.
	But I'm 11 years younger than him.
	I'm fortunate at 81.
	I haven't been affected by anything.
	And I have great genes.
	My mother at 93 was able to do what he's doing right now.
	And most of my family.
	I'm going to.
	We're going to take a break.
	Take a good break.
	And we'll be right back.
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	Scott would become the first blind, active duty military officer before medically retiring years later.
	Thanks to friends like you, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation gave Scott and his family a mortgage-free, specially adapted smart home.
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	Judge, because Judge Hellestein was involved in some of the Trump cases, the attempt by the president, which I thought was a legitimate one to move the case to federal court because it was largely a matter of federal application of federal law.
	In fact peculiarly, an application of federal law.
	You couldn't be guilty, you couldn't be guilty of the uh state felony unless you committed a uh a federal crime.
	So I thought the idea of it's being transferred to the federal court was legitimate.
	It also is legitimate for a court to turn that down.
	That's more in the nature of a discretionary decision by a court uh you might say that it'd be governed by his political bias, also might be governed by his view of uh judicial restraint and uh just exactly what that means and how broad he wants to see federal jurisdiction.
	It certainly was not one of those crazy illegitimate decisions like they were making in the state court, where those two judges in the state court proved themselves to be what most state Supreme Court justices are in Manhattan, the Bronx, Uh Queens And Brooklyn, and that is, creatures of the Democrat leader who puts them there uh, because they wouldn't be there but for that and the election is a complete phony.
	Um, he's an independently appointed judge, independently appointed by president Clinton and and uh, from all I know from having practiced in New York with him for some time, a very honorable man.
	So yes, he's gonna.
	He's gonna probably apply a much more liberal outlook to the case than uh, you or I would have uh, where maybe we don't see as many rights for criminals, or we think a lot of them that are created are mistakes, but they're within the bounds of reasonable argument.
	Uh, and I do, and I and I do think uh, that the idea of giving Maduro a break because you hate Clinton only happens if you really are a warped Democrat.
	Ellestein's not a warped Democrat.
	He's not warped at all.
	His only issue is his age, Which he knows best.
	And since I haven't seen him in a long time, I can't even give you a good view on that.
	But I'll call some of my friends who practice in New York and find out how's Al doing?
	Is he on it?
	There is concern because he did rule against Trump.
	The rulings are rulings that I could have done and some of us could have done a different way.
	But they're not the kind of rulings where, as a lawyer, I can say, oh, God, that means the judge is crazy.
	It's within the bounds of the law is broad and allows for a lot of interpretation.
	As long as you're within it, you're practicing law the way it's supposed to be practiced in America.
	I don't have any feeling or view that he'd do anything different.
	And I think even if there were more temptations in a Trump case to do that, there are many less in the Maduro case.
	I just don't think judges are going to react to this the way the scumbag politicians are in Congress.
	I find it totally unacceptable in a case like this when they're supporting Maduro.
	But I'm not surprised.
	I really have become convinced that they would support Satan if he appeared.
	If Trump was about to eliminate Satan for good, they would say, well, you have to keep Satan around.
	And Trump is doing it because he wants to get money or something.
	It's just the way they are.
	We've got to live with it.
	We've got to deal with it.
	And we've got to be able to overcome it because we've got to do what the president is doing for us, keep moving forward, keep our eyes up, march into the future.
	The changes that he's made so far are extraordinary.
	If it keeps up over another year, even before we face 2026, we could be permanently turned around and able to change it.
	It gets two more years after that, they won't be able to stop it.
	Americans love, understand liberty, freedom, decency.
	And when it's shown to them again, it's infectious.
	And boy, is it infectious.
	Just what happened that Friday night into Saturday morning, once again demonstrating to the world that this is the greatest nation on earth and that we use our power for good to liberate people, to see those people from Venezuela all over the world crying and hoping that they can see their children again or their mothers and fathers or get some of their property back.
	That's what we're about.
	We're liberators.
	I told the president that.
	I told the president that twice on Saturday and Sunday, that he now has the title of liberator, great liberator.
	Titles that exist not for every president.
	They exist for Ronald Reagan.
	They exist for Bush.
	They exist for Roosevelt.
	They exist, of course, for Lincoln.
	Disproportionate number of the people they exist for are Republicans, by the way.
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	Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani.
	This is America's Mayor Live, live from Palm Beach, although it does appear as if we're live from Caracas, which whatever they're telling you is now a very happy city, but tempered somewhat by the fact that the person in charge is a communist and a murderer and a criminal and someone who we made a deal with.
	And I'm not, I mean, there are two sides to whether you should have made the deal, and there are two legitimate sides to it.
	And I'm not necessarily right now attempting to criticize it.
	I'm just being real.
	But the hope is that we are completely in control of this criminal and will use her for a sensible transition, which requires a very, very delicate judgment about who you keep on, who you get rid of.
	A judgment that we made brilliantly after the Second World War, better than any nation ever did, conducted the best nation building, gosh, since Julius Caesar, who, of course, was a lot more brutal in the way he did it.
	There's no doubt in the world that if they had a title of who has been the greatest nation builder person ever, it would be Douglas MacArthur in Japan.
	And all we have to do when we do it, take a trip to Japan and go pick a person on the street, because the Japanese still learn history.
	In America, if you ask who Douglas MacArthur is, people in New York would say MacArthur Airport, but have no idea who it was named after.
	Well, the transition is now taking place.
	Celia Delcey is the illegitimate president of Venezuela recognized by the United States.
	She's illegitimate because she was never elected.
	The election was a so Maduro gets elected with her, but the uniform decision is, when I say uniform, I mean the United Nations, not even the U.S., is that she didn't win and that he didn't win.
	So if he didn't win, she didn't win.
	Now he's out and she's in by virtue of being the interim vice president.
	So in a way, she's a caretaker for the American occupation, which is a very light occupation.
	It's an occupation from the telephone.
	I don't think we have troops in Venezuela.
	I don't think so.
	If we do, they're just in order to facilitate removal of things.
	We still have a massive fleet right outside of Caracas.
	And I think the ability to overwhelm them as faster, faster than we did before.
	And we are definitely bossing her around.
	I mean, she started off when she first took over criticizing the effort and asking that Maduro be put back.
	And the next morning, she had a conversation with Secretary of State Rubio, and now she's doing anything America wants.
	Smart woman, but very, very crooked woman.
	And the sooner she's gone, the better for the future of Venezuela.
	So why is it a close question?
	And yesterday, you'll see, and almost immediately I tweeted out that I thought it was a mistake and that we should just get rid of her.
	I still think that's true.
	Personally, I think the better way to do this was take a little more time and clean out the scum at the top.
	Cut the head off.
	We don't have to cut the shoulders off.
	Just cut the head off.
	Maybe you have to cut the shoulders off.
	But it might work if you just cut the head off.
	The head means her, the top ministers of government, and the top implementers.
	I'm going to say without having studied Venezuela, I could probably tell you in Iran what the number is, but in 100 people, pick somebody that has a reputation of having been anti-Maduro inside.
	And we know who they are.
	How the hell do you think we pull this off?
	Don't be naive.
	A smooth mission like this doesn't happen without an awful lot of inside knowledge.
	A lot of people turned on this guy.
	Well, she did.
	I mean, she ratted him out.
	That's why she is where she is.
	She has been working with us for quite some time.
	So, but I think you could make the decision that you want the railroads to run, you want the airports to run, you want the country to run, you don't want it to fall apart like Iraq.
	You want to kind of do a MacArthur transition or like the one we did in Italy or like the one we did in our part of Germany.
	Although there we did cut the head off.
	We got rid of the top Nazi people.
	Now, we know we didn't get rid of all of them, and we know a lot of them escaped.
	But we got rid of the top most obvious Nazi people.
	It wasn't just Hitler.
	It was the whole group.
	And Italy, the same thing, a whole group around Mussolini.
	We kept a lot of people who worked for them.
	It was a delicate balance, and that's necessary here.
	So the delicate balance we thought would work, having worked with her in the double cross of Maduro, was that she would do our bidding.
	And let's see, let's see.
	She started off bad.
	She straightened out.
	And we'll keep, I assume we keep daily momentary watch on it.
	The most important thing is that we guide Venezuela to what I know.
	And you know, you know whether you know it or you don't, but you know it as an American.
	These are sophisticated 21st century people here.
	This is not a Neanderthal outcla enclave.
	These people want freedom.
	These are Christians.
	These are mostly Catholics.
	It's inherent in it's their God-given right, and they know it.
	So that's where we got to go.
	We got to go in that direction.
	And I believe we are.
	And whether I agree or I don't with individual decisions, I am praying for the success. of this effort.
	I hope when I criticize, it's either helpful or I'm wrong.
	I'm not a Democrat and an anti-American.
	Now, I have before this show, I put out a little thing.
	I did two things just to see what was going on because I had a suspicion.
	I hit Grok for the top five stories.
	And they came up with Maduro pleads not guilty, coalition of the willing summit on Ukraine, NATO tensions, global news bulletin.
	Europe and international are emphasizing fraud geopolitical shift.
	Global markets are reacting differently with regard to the economic risk.
	And Russia-Ukraine war continues with missile strikes.
	So that was their five top stories from Grok, which if you use that AI thing, and the fifth one, I think I just said, was that Russia-Ukraine war continues with a strike?
	Sounds pretty reasonable, right?
	Right.
	Now, let's go to ChatGPTZQY, whatever the hell it is.
	What is it, Ted?
	Let's get it right here.
	Chat GPT.
	Who owns that?
	I believe Chat GPT.
	It's its own company.
	What?
	Sam Altman.
	Sam Altman owns it?
	I believe.
	He's not a lefty, is he?
	Open AI.
	Is he a lefty?
	Yes.
	But he's kind of come over a little bit.
	Well, here, top story.
	Elon used to be a part of it, but left.
	Okay, top story.
	Sift anniversary of the January 6th Capitol attack, Democrats held events and reflections at the Capitol.
	The events and reflections they should have held is to apologize for having surreptitiously carried it out using Antifa.
	Because I specifically know and have known from the night that it happened that 257 Antifa people were in there orchestrating it.
	And maybe I'm the one person along with the people who got that information from you that knew it the first.
	And this is just another Russian collusion Democrat story that they have persuaded the vast majority of people to believe in order to destroy Donald Trump.
	But the number one story in the whole world was what's going on with Venezuela?
	What's going on with Ukraine?
	What's going on in Israel?
	What's going on in America is a bunch of Democrats getting together to try and reinforce a fraud that they attempted to pull off on the American people, which cost the life of Ashley Babbitt.
	Maybe the demonstration should be who killed Ashley Babbitt?
	Right.
	Because, you know, in New York, we never close a murder until it's solved because we value human life greatly.
	But Democrats don't value human life.
	I mean, they wouldn't agree to killing six, seven, eight, and nine-month-old babies in the womb if they did.
	The second and third story also were about the second and third story.
	Well, we'll wait.
	We'll take a quick break.
	I don't think it could be, but I have to get it.
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	Well, completing the thought on these AI devices, and I am probably like most of you, mixed on AI.
	There's no, not just mixed, I mean, clearly of two minds.
	Yes, it's very, very valuable, and it can be terrific.
	Two, it's very, very, very dangerous.
	In fact, as valuable as it is, that's as dangerous as it is.
	And it is for us to be able to manage it so we get the best out of it and we keep away the danger, as it is with all things.
	Think about flight, right?
	Flight is extraordinarily dangerous, right?
	Not really.
	I mean, people die a lot more by cars.
	So cars are actually extraordinarily dangerous compared to flights.
	I don't want to contribute to the paranoia about flying because you've got like a 10 times greater chance of dying in a car.
	Like when people get on the airplane and a word about dying, you get in the car is 10 times more.
	So, yes, cars are very, very dangerous, but cars are very necessary.
	So same thing we have here.
	It's a little more intellectual.
	It's a little more even spiritual in some ways.
	But I'll tell you what has to be avoided.
	What you put in, by and large, is what you're going to get out.
	So when I ask Chat GPT what the three big stories are, and they're about whether they're, well, the Democrats are holding a big conference today on their phony January 6th bullshit without at least mentioning the fact that there's a whole other side of the story.
	Number two, they want to put up a memorial to January 6th.
	I'll pull one up too.
	And then they're going to have to have me put up a memorial, which is Nancy Dallessandro and her crooks undermining the integrity of the United States by using her daughter and the Capitol Police, the FBI lying for four years about it.
	And then how about naming the 240 or 250 Antifa people that are in there?
	You never bother to do face recognition with any of them.
	And I've got the damn email that says it, but you never bothered to even investigate.
	So I want my plaque showing these people who are criminals, starting with Nancy D'Alessandro.
	But that's the number two story.
	The number three story is also about the dispute about whether it should or should not be carried on, this thing.
	Those are the top three stories.
	That's before we get to Maduro.
	That's before we get to Ukraine being bombed.
	That's before we get to the fact that they're having a summit in Europe about Ukraine.
	That's before we get to the fact about what's going on in Venezuela with Celia Del C, who is a acolyte of Maduro and Chavez, now running it, but running it and taking our orders.
	Is that a good idea, a bad idea?
	Is it working?
	Now you go over to, now you go over to the one on X, which is called Grok.
	Oh, well, let me finish it out.
	So when they said that to me, I wrote back to them and I said, this is disgraceful.
	This is really just a product of your political bias.
	And they admitted it.
	They said, yeah, well, that's probably right.
	These stories are the more important stories, really.
	So now they go with Maduro pleads guilty, coalition of the willing, global news headline, Europe emphasizing broad geopolitical shifts, the market, how the market's doing, and the Russia-Ukraine war.
	After I scolded them.
	And then I went to, and then I went to Grok, which is their competitor.
	And They have instead, they are focusing on, as you would imagine, the five top stories, pleading not guilty, Trump and Greenland back at it again, European leaders talking about Ukraine.
	As fourth, they have January 6th capital anniversary.
	Democrats are holding events and Republicans have a different view.
	And finally, the CES convention in Las Vegas, which is the largest AI technological convention.
	This is the 20th year of it.
	And it always comes up with some of the possibilities for the future, some of which work out, some of which don't work out.
	That's a pretty fair thing.
	And it's really important for us to stay on top of this.
	This is what we got to straighten out.
	The reason the country gets bad decisions is the country is brainwashed.
	And there are only a certain number of people that are not just smart enough, but independent enough of will to resist it and want to fight it and go through the trouble of reading and going behind the headlines and having more sources than one.
	But a lot just fall into it.
	And it's part of the communist plot and the Islamic Mohammed-inspired Islamic plot to take over the world of the infidels.
	So your answer to it is you got to have, among whatever other sources you have information, some contradictory and some contradictory and independent ones, which should include us, because we'll give you the truth.
	You don't have to accept it as the truth.
	You can go test us against somebody else.
	But I can assure you, to the extent that we're capable of getting it, we'll give it to you and we'll give it to you with the caveats that we're not sure.
	I think you might have seen if you've followed us anytime over the last five or six years, that when we get into a controversial story, no matter how political it is, we tell you when we have the facts, we give you the facts.
	When we have the suppositions, we give you the suppositions.
	And we tell you that.
	And we have facts, but there is a dispute, we tell you they're a dispute, and we tell you our opinion.
	And you get to weigh that.
	That's why I do this show.
	That's why I started doing it, because it was needed five or six years ago.
	It's more needed today.
	And this is another example of it.
	And how we're going to have to learn that given the fact that we've trained a generation to live off this, right?
	How much is three and three?
	Six.
	Can you divide three into six?
	Well, you can just put in on the thing here.
	You can do it.
	Oh.
	Oh, yeah.
	Could you do it on paper?
	Tell me what time it is.
	I don't know.
	Oh, there it is.
	These are all things that are necessary so that we're independent.
	It doesn't have to be independent all the time.
	It doesn't mean we can't get things from AI like I did.
	But I have the independent knowledge that I, because I go to so many sources, when they give me four things or three things about January 6th, they tell me it's most important for today, because I do the independent research and have all my life.
	I'm capable of saying bullshit.
	That's what.
	And that's what that's we are dedicated to that.
	That's what our whole mission is.
	So having said that, and we have already spent a good deal of time on Venezuela, I really don't think this is all going to play out and we'll get a real sense of how it's going to go.
	It's going to be hard, it's going to be easy until we get a couple of days or weeks of experience with this new organization.
	Even though there are a group of slime and criminals, they may be controllable slime and criminals.
	And if they are, we can make this transition.
	Most important thing, actually, are they willing to give up power?
	Because critical to this is, they're going to step aside.
	We'll have to see.
	But this is a reasonable alternative to having spent the next three or four weeks there, possibly in some kind of warfare, and get rid of their top thousand people.
	Now, I think that I vote for that, but I understand and support doing it the other way and hope it works.
	Because it's a lot better if it works that way.
	But then we got to be willing to come in if it doesn't.
	Again, I think I mentioned earlier, but it's worth mentioning again that as the European leaders meet to talk about what to do about Ukraine, because Russia is again right now, maybe as we speak or a little before and possibly a little later again, they're bombing the heck out of Ukraine, including my favorite city, Kharkiv.
	I mean, if they don't leave Kharkiv alone, I'm going to go volunteer and fight in Kharkiv.
	The people at Kharkiv have been nothing short of heroic.
	And they used to be pro-Russian.
	They were turned and now they hate Russia.
	And they're right on the border.
	They're the second most important city and rich city in Russia.
	And they're holding off the Russians again.
	Now, they're not going to take Kharkiv.
	But Putin's angry at Kharkiv because they won't submit to him.
	And this, I think this probably has me angrier at Khrushchev, yeah.
	At Putin than anything else.
	Whatever his grand objectives are to be Peter the Great or to be Nikita Khrushchev or whatever the heck it is, that he needs more territory for Russia.
	This little phase of what he grabbed is over now.
	There's no reason for these extrads.
	There's no reason for it.
	And if it really is to gain negotiating position, then he really is a monster.
	He's a monster.
	Just killing people in streets, babies, children, women.
	He's not hitting military compounds.
	He's hitting apartment buildings.
	And I don't know why the world doesn't point it out more.
	Gosh, Israel does nothing like that.
	Nothing like that.
	Nothing.
	And a lot of Europe hates Putin, but they still don't point it out.
	Israel has conducted its war with tremendous restraint because if you can't accept anything else, I know why, because they're humane, decent people.
	But if you can't accept anything else, because it's counterproductive for them to kill civilians and they know it and they're smart enough to know it.
	And they're smart enough to know that the Palestinians and the Hamas and all of the Jew-hating press exaggerates the number of killings.
	I mean, I don't know how many of those killings are done by Israel and how many are done by Hamas.
	Hamas kills its own people.
	You think they're going to report that?
	Ten kids dead today.
	They may have killed eight.
	And the other two might have been killed because they were put in front of a general.
	That's not happening in Ukraine.
	The Ukrainians aren't putting their kids in front of them so that the Russians kill them.
	Russians are killing them because the Russians don't give a damn if they kill kids.
	And I'm sorry, Mr. Russians, it's all Putin.
	You're doing it.
	You're doing it.
	Pieces of crap on the front line are doing it.
	You're killing the kids.
	God, you're probably related to them.
	Well, as we said, Maduro pled guilty.
	What does it mean?
	Many not guilty.
	What it means is he played not guilty.
	And the trial and the process has to begin.
	There is an indictment.
	The judge has not yet set down anything like a schedule for there'll be now the judge is 92 years old, Judge Ellestein.
	Judge Ellestein is an old-fashioned left of left of left of left and then further left.
	But he is not, but he is not by today's standards left.
	I don't know if that you understand that.
	I hope you do.
	He is a, at least my experience with him, and that was both as a lawyer and as a judge, but mostly as a lawyer.
	He's a very, very good, very responsible lawyer who is going to conduct this case in what he believes is a fair and honorable way.
	That might be more pro-defendant normally than I would consider correct, but again, that's a difference of opinion, not principle.
	And I do expect that this will be a fair trial.
	It may anger some people who want to see Maduro convicted because he may give Maduro more of the benefit of the doubt than a lot of people think he should be entitled to, but then you don't know the law.
	My real issue for the judge is his age.
	I don't know at 92 what kind of condition he's in.
	He does seem to want to, he doesn't seem particularly interested in a speedy trial, which I can understand that.
	I mean, it's a complex case.
	And if he were rushing it, a lot of people would feel that he wasn't handling it carefully.
	There's a lot to be considered here: international law, law, even for the vindication of our government.
	I want to see it done right.
	So the fact that he's 92 and they're talking about this taking a couple of years.
	I don't know if this is a, look, I'm 81.
	I'm hardly anybody who wants to say you should take things away from people if they get old.
	I am in, I'm in a condition where if you said you got to preside over a 10-week trial, I could do it.
	But I'm 11 years younger than him.
	I'm fortunate at 81.
	I haven't been affected by anything.
	And I have great genes.
	My mother at 93 was able to do what he's doing right now.
	And most of my family.
	I'm going to.
	We're going to take a break.
	Take a good break.
	And we'll be right back.
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	Judge, because Judge Hellestein was involved in some of the Trump cases, the attempt by the president, which I thought was a legitimate one to move the case to federal court because it was largely a matter of federal application of federal law.
	In fact, peculiarly an application of federal law.
	You couldn't be guilty of the state felony unless you committed a federal crime.
	So I thought the idea of its being transferred to the federal court was legitimate.
	It also is legitimate for a court to turn that down.
	That's more in the nature of a discretionary decision by a court.
	You might say that it'd be governed by his political bias.
	Also might be governed by his view of judicial restraint and just exactly what that means and how broad he wants to see federal jurisdiction.
	It certainly was not one of those crazy, illegitimate decisions like they were making in the state court, where those two judges in the state court proved themselves to be what most state Supreme Court justices are in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, and that is creatures of the Democrat leader who puts them there because they wouldn't be there but for that.
	And the election is a complete phony.
	He's an independently appointed judge, independently appointed by President Clinton.
	And from all I know from having practiced in New York with him for some time, a very honorable man.
	So yes, he's going to probably apply a much more liberal outlook to the case than you or I would have, where maybe we don't see as many rights for criminals, or we think a lot of them that are created are mistakes, but they're within the bounds of reasonable argument.
	And I do think that the idea of giving Maduro a break because you hate Clinton only happens if you really are a warped Democrat.
	Ellestein's not a warped Democrat.
	He's not warped at all.
	His only issue is his age, which he knows best.
	And since I haven't seen him in a long time, I can't even give you a good view on that.
	And I'll call some of my friends who practice in New York and find out how's Al doing?
	Is he on it?
	There is concern because he did rule against Trump.
	The rulings are rulings that I could have done and some of us could have done a different way.
	But they're not the kind of rulings where, as a lawyer, I can say, oh, God, that means the judge is crazy.
	It's within the bounds of the law is broad and allows for a lot of interpretation.
	As long as you're within it, you're practicing law the way it's supposed to be practiced in America.
	I don't have any feeling or view that he'd do anything different.
	And I think even if there were more temptations in a Trump case to do that, there are many less in the Maduro case.
	I just don't think judges are going to react to this the way the scumbag politicians are in Congress.
	I find it totally unacceptable in a case like this when they're supporting Maduro.
	But I'm not surprised.
	I really have become convinced that they would support Satan if he appeared.
	If Trump was about to eliminate Satan for good, they would say, well, you have to keep Satan around.
	And Trump is doing it because he wants to get money or something.
	This is the way they are.
	We've got to live with it.
	We've got to deal with it.
	And we've got to be able to overcome it because we've got to do what the president is doing for us.
	Keep moving forward.
	Keep our eyes up.
	March into the future.
	The changes that he's made so far are extraordinary.
	If it keeps up over another year, even before we face 2026, we could be permanently turned around and able to change it.
	It gets two more years after that.
	They won't be able to stop it.
	Americans love, understand liberty, freedom, decency.
	And when it's shown to them again, it's infectious.
	And boy, is it infectious.
	Just what happened that Friday night into Saturday morning, once again demonstrating to the world that this is the greatest nation on earth and that we use our power for good to liberate people, to see those people from Venezuela all over the world crying and hoping that they can see their children again or their mothers and fathers or kick some of their property back.
	That's what we're about.
	We're liberators.
	I told the president that.
	I told the president that twice on Saturday and Sunday, that he now has the title of liberator, great liberator.
	Titles that exist not for every president.
	They exist for Ronald Reagan.
	They exist for Bush.
	They exist for Roosevelt.
	They exist, of course, for Lincoln.
	Disproportionate number of the people they exist for are Republicans, by the way.
	Well, we'll take a short break and we'll be right back.
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	America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
	There was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
	It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
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